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Last night closed the series of winter meetings of the Harvard Athletic Association. The work of the association this year has been extremely successful, in spite of many draw-backs which have been encountered. It is really wonderful, when the unsettled state of our athletes during the past few months is taken into consideration, how the officers of the association could have presented such interesting programs at the meetings just finished. This energetic work, in the face of adverse circumstances, reflects credit of no low degree on the gentlemen in whose charge has been the management of the association...
...spite of much harsh treatment, we must confess that we have always had a kind spot in our heart for the Vassar Miss, (we refer to the magazine of that name). The standard of this journal is always of the highest, and its pages are always interesting. It very seldom attempts the well-known heavy article that is so prominent a feature of so many of our ambitious exchanges, and at the same time its light articles are at least readable. All in all, the journal is a credit to its editors, and does much to establish our belief...
...weekly meet of the club at Watertown Wednesday afternoon, was well attended in spite of the threatening weather. For some reason, however, the shooting was unusually uneven, and much below the average of last week's scores. Mr. Slocum acted as executive officer, and Mr. C. A. Brown as scorer. Mr. Edmands, '83, was present and shot with the club. The summary of matches is as follows...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-In spite of its present complicated state of athletic affairs, Harvard will send delegates as usual to the Inter-collegiate Baseball Association meeting of delegates from the various colleges of the league, which takes place during the first week in March. Dartmouth intends then to make an effort to re-enter the league. This is one of the original league colleges, and since its students devote themselves to baseball to the almost entire exclusion of other athletic games, it has generally a fair team, at least; and it seems a pity that it should be thought necessary...
...debate of the Harvard Union last evening was fairly well attended in spite of the inclement weather. The disputants of the evening, Messrs. Root and Currier and Messrs. Coffin and Rich for the affirmative and negative acquitted themselves well and were supported by several speakers from the floor...